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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)
My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
Soviet partisan soon to be executed by a Finnish firing squad. Hanko 1941
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My brother, circa 1970
A father and son from the same German regiment reading a letter from their wife and mother, 1915. The son is a volunteer in the same company in which his father is a regular.
“Symphony of the 6th Blast Furnace” – Soviet Union, 1979 (by E. Sedukhin)
My great uncle Eugene and his wife Virginia on their wedding day. Guessing late 1930s, not sure.
My PopPop in 1974 (with the white tshirt)
‘Bald – Nonbald’ Russian leaders timeline projected into the future (Russia, 2011)
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